Melting North Pole Sends Buried Watch To Denmark
Author: Dave Lewis
Stories like this make me cringe.
From Boing Boing:
Axlrosen sez, “A wristwatch buried in the ice at the North Pole three years ago was found by a boy more than 1,800 miles away after it floated ashore on the Faeroe Islands.”
Niels Jakup Mortensen, 11, spotted a black box near his home on Suduroy, the Faeroes’ southernmost island, his mother Anna Jacobsen said. Inside, she said, was a watch that had been buried at the North Pole by Joergen Amundsen, a descendant of Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen.
Jacobsen said the watch discovered by her son earlier this month was still working, and was accompanied by a letter from Joergen Amundsen. “It was so unbelievable,” she said. “It had been buried in the North Pole.”
UPDATE: Here is more info on this story (thanks Keith)
Tags: Global Warming, Global Security, North Pole
